Yesterday read Ingram's MCTB. Key features on "path" are artifacts from persistently blocked info flows seekers specifically advised to ignore 🤨 Description of 3 characteristics is clear enough for me to feel like I can articulate disagreement: 🧵👇
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"Suffering" is just blocked motion. A practice where sitting still in a monastery wasn't such a central case wouldn't suffer from this confusion. We're trained to imagine that we can hold onto satisfaction by freezing. Nei Gong seems like a precise functional patch here.
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sure enlightenment is great but have you ever tried wiggling
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I got legit value from trying out *not* wiggling for a while, to learn the difference between a desire to distract myself experienced as a desire to move, and an authentic motor impulse - but there are less coercive and more efficient ways to learn that
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I'd be very interested in your thoughts on this, especially if you disagree with any of it, even subtly.
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i don't know what nei gong is but i like the direction and vibe of this, gets at the sutra vs. tantra distinction from a refreshing angle, although idk how much my opinion really matters either way here 😛
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Neigong is where you gradually build up Qigong / Taichi movements from the motor impulses you activate doing a standing body scan
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And especially the *beginning* of that process, learning how to do the body scan specifically for key nodes in your *sensorimotor* network
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so, first you make sure your whole body can wiggle freely from a standing position, then you gently start instructing it to do stuff, only moving to the next step when you can do all the previous movements smoothly in a "wiggle freely" state
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huh! I've done some stuff like this intuitively at times, I think, feeling into different postures then wiggling
also wow, I was just wiggling for 30s while reading this exchange, and now that I'm typing my shoulder has a bunch of tension 🤔
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